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Newbie Linux question(s)

Zorba

Zorba

Lifer
I just installed Redhat 9 with GNOME. So far I like it, besides that I have no idea what is going on with the file system.

I was wondering if there was a way to get my files off my FAT32 partitions. And how I would go about doing that. (ie. things like my mp3s and movies, and documents, etc.)

I for some reason feel that this will not be my last question, unless my school library has a good Linux book. 😕

EDIT: Actually I already though of my next question. I have a G400 dual head and I was wondering how to turn on the second output so I can use my second monitor.
 
You can, by the way, leave your files on your FAT32 partitions if you wish.. Linux is perfectly capable of reading and writing to FAT32. The thing about Unix-based filesystems is that you have to completely unlearn the concept of a lettered drive system and instead think in terms of devices and mount-points.

Have fun!
 
There's a tool called powerdesk which will auto-create a multimonitor X config file for you. I used that and it worked fairly well, you may need to do some extra tweaking though, the utility seems pretty old. Also, it will create a non-xinerama setup with two screens, basically making each monitor ignorant of the other in normal desktop use. If you want to use it as one big desktop, look into what n0cmonkey mentioned, xinerama.
 
Thanks for all of your help 🙂

One more question, what is a good MP3 player for Linux. I have XMMS but it says MP3s were disabled by Redhat
 
goto the XMMS site, they give a how-to in order to get them to work. I believe it is just reinstalling...but I'm not sure. Been awhile since I used RH.
 
Everytime I try to run a rpm file I get an error message that says "Installation Tree Not found. The path /mnt/cdrom does not look like a valid installation source." What does that mean and how do I fix the problem?

(I know I sound like a real moron but I am very thankful for the help. I just wish the school library had a book about linux that was published in the last 4 years.)
 
It can't find your CD, since you don't have it in and mounted in /mnt/cdrom. That is odd, but possible given RedHat. Just pop your RedHat install CD into the drive, try to install the rpm again, and see what it says. 🙂
 
Actually I had that problem when upgrading a 7.3 system to 9.0.

IIRC look for a file like this.
comps.rpm. I am not sure if this is your problem.
However when I updated I missed this rpm which lives not in the RPM directory.
i believe it was on disk 1, under Redhat/base.

I would this. mount disk1.
Then go to the file and try a rpm -Uvh --test comps.rpm. See what that says.
If it gives no errors, then try rpm -Uvh comps.rpm.

After I did that, I no longer had problems with Installation Tree Not Found.

If it still gives problems, you might want to try a rpm --rebuilddb and rebuild the rpm database.
 
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